| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 2001 12 | |
| Title: | GRAY WARE CONICAL BOWL WITH RELIEF TONDO | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 2001 | |
| Object Number: | 12 | |
| Description: | Conical bowl with low base ring, narrow resting surface, conical undersurface. Wide straight flaring body rising at ca. 30 degrees and offset from base ring by 2 deep circumference grooves. From break it appears that tondo made separately in mould and attached to wheelmade (?) vessel. Presumably because of floor's great thickness, cracks in undersurface. | |
| Decoration: | On floor, tondo in high relief: boy riding a dolphin, directed lt.; dolphin's body horizontal with tail curling back and up so that two tips frame head of boy. Boy, somewhat summarily modeled, sits astride dolphin's back, holding on with both hands; apparently nude; features indistinct. Tondo rises slightly above surrounding floor. Lustrous gray-black glaze over all. | |
| Mythology: | Melikertes / Palaimon | |
| Attributes: | Dolphin Child | |
| Material: | Fine well-compacted gray clay, without mica, with very rare fine sparkling and black inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 5/1 | |
| Condition: | Single frgt., preserving 3/4 foot, floor and lower body; interior chipped. | |
| Manufacture: | MW | |
| Dimensions Actual: | D00.041 (base ring) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.028 | |
| Weight Description: | 0.085 | |
| Weight: | 0.085 | |
| Period: | Hellenistic | |
| Chronology: | Late 3rd-early 2nd B.C. ? | |
| Area: | Panaghia Villa | |
| Context: | NB937 B67 P158 | |
| NB937 B68 P159 | ||
| Provenance: | Corinth? | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Panaghia Villa Image: bw 2001 018 34 Image: bw 2001 018 35 Basket: NB937 B67 P158 Basket: NB937 B68 P159 Notebook Page: NB 937, spread 85 (pp. 158 - 159) |
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